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Verlanka



1995hoo

Quote from: jeffandnicole on March 28, 2019, 06:06:16 AM
Quote from: 1995hoo on March 27, 2019, 04:06:00 PM
I'm pretty sure I never participated in the Alanland thread, as in general I don't visit "Fictional Highways"  very often. (There's the difficulty with the question: If there's a long thread on a subforum you don't visit, you wouldn't know about it to cite in response to the question. I don't visit several of the regional fora, as well as "Fictional Highways."  I doubt I'm unique in that respect.)

Correct.  I generally glance at the bottom which shows the 10 recent posts, and may dive into the Northeast subforum or General Highway.  After that, I'm not actively looking into many other subforums.

There are some where I just wouldn't have anything worthwhile to contribute because I've never been to a given area and I don't know anything about the roads. (I suppose I'm teeing up the opportunity for snark about whether I have anything worthwhile to contribute anywhere....  :-D )
"You know, you never have a guaranteed spot until you have a spot guaranteed."
—Olaf Kolzig, as quoted in the Washington Times on March 28, 2003,
commenting on the Capitals clinching a playoff spot.

"That sounded stupid, didn't it?"
—Kolzig, to the same reporter a few seconds later.

hbelkins

Quote from: 1995hoo on March 27, 2019, 05:40:48 PMI recall one of the moderators saying something like, "The thread is closed, and we're tired of people not being willing to accept that" (not in those exact words, of course)

Dictators gonna be dictatorial.


Government would be tolerable if not for politicians and bureaucrats.

GaryV


Roadgeekteen

Quote from: hbelkins on March 28, 2019, 03:51:23 PM
Quote from: 1995hoo on March 27, 2019, 05:40:48 PMI recall one of the moderators saying something like, "The thread is closed, and we're tired of people not being willing to accept that" (not in those exact words, of course)

Dictators gonna be dictatorial.
Don't let the door hit you on your way out.
God-emperor of Alanland, king of all the goats and goat-like creatures

Current Interstate map I am making:

https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit?hl=en&mid=1PEDVyNb1skhnkPkgXi8JMaaudM2zI-Y&ll=29.05778059819179%2C-82.48856825&z=5

kphoger

Quote from: Roadgeekteen on March 28, 2019, 05:46:09 PM
Don't let the door hit you on your way out.

Making enemies for no reason?
Keep right except to pass.  Yes.  You.
Visit scenic Orleans County, NY!
Male pronouns, please.

Quote from: Philip K. DickIf you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use them.

MNHighwayMan


Roadgeekteen

God-emperor of Alanland, king of all the goats and goat-like creatures

Current Interstate map I am making:

https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit?hl=en&mid=1PEDVyNb1skhnkPkgXi8JMaaudM2zI-Y&ll=29.05778059819179%2C-82.48856825&z=5

kphoger

Quote from: Roadgeekteen on March 29, 2019, 02:44:41 PM
Hbelkins is being a dick.

Perhaps, but so is "Don't let the door hit you on your way out."
Keep right except to pass.  Yes.  You.
Visit scenic Orleans County, NY!
Male pronouns, please.

Quote from: Philip K. DickIf you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use them.

kphoger

(Let's get back to the barely-a-topic.)
Keep right except to pass.  Yes.  You.
Visit scenic Orleans County, NY!
Male pronouns, please.

Quote from: Philip K. DickIf you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use them.

X99

Quote from: kphoger on March 29, 2019, 03:06:56 PM
(Let's get back to the barely-a-topic.)
Agreed.

Why the bypass in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy would have been useless
why are there only like 5 people on this forum from south dakota

hbelkins

Quote from: Roadgeekteen on March 29, 2019, 02:44:41 PM
Quote from: kphoger on March 29, 2019, 01:10:15 PM
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on March 28, 2019, 05:46:09 PM
Don't let the door hit you on your way out.

Making enemies for no reason?
Hbelkins is being a dick.

If you think being honest makes you a dick, you have a lot to learn about life as you mature.


Government would be tolerable if not for politicians and bureaucrats.

X99

Why the bypass in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy would have been useless
why are there only like 5 people on this forum from south dakota

MNHighwayMan

Five reasons why posting again in a larger font is totally necessary

X99

Quote from: MNHighwayMan on March 29, 2019, 03:45:50 PM
Five reasons why posting again in a larger font is totally necessary
I was trying to steer everyone back on topic
why are there only like 5 people on this forum from south dakota

kphoger

Keep right except to pass.  Yes.  You.
Visit scenic Orleans County, NY!
Male pronouns, please.

Quote from: Philip K. DickIf you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use them.

formulanone

Quote from: X99 on March 29, 2019, 03:41:46 PM
Why the bypass in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy would have been useless

The c/8 speed limit due to proximity of the Vogon Poetry School ruined it.

abefroman329

Quote from: X99 on March 29, 2019, 03:41:46 PM
Why the bypass in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy would have been useless
Which one? They discuss no fewer than two.

Roadgeekteen

Quote from: hbelkins on March 29, 2019, 03:39:59 PM
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on March 29, 2019, 02:44:41 PM
Quote from: kphoger on March 29, 2019, 01:10:15 PM
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on March 28, 2019, 05:46:09 PM
Don't let the door hit you on your way out.

Making enemies for no reason?
Hbelkins is being a dick.

If you think being honest makes you a dick, you have a lot to learn about life as you mature.
That's your opinion. You're going too far.
God-emperor of Alanland, king of all the goats and goat-like creatures

Current Interstate map I am making:

https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit?hl=en&mid=1PEDVyNb1skhnkPkgXi8JMaaudM2zI-Y&ll=29.05778059819179%2C-82.48856825&z=5

1995hoo

"You know, you never have a guaranteed spot until you have a spot guaranteed."
—Olaf Kolzig, as quoted in the Washington Times on March 28, 2003,
commenting on the Capitals clinching a playoff spot.

"That sounded stupid, didn't it?"
—Kolzig, to the same reporter a few seconds later.

Roadgeekteen

God-emperor of Alanland, king of all the goats and goat-like creatures

Current Interstate map I am making:

https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit?hl=en&mid=1PEDVyNb1skhnkPkgXi8JMaaudM2zI-Y&ll=29.05778059819179%2C-82.48856825&z=5

hotdogPi

African Americans four times more likely to be caught by red light camera

I-20/59 overlap becomes major reason why new Meridian-Augusta Interstate vote passes
(I-20 rerouted on the new road, and existing I-20 becomes I-59 alone and I-22)
Clinched

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X99

Quote from: abefroman329 on March 29, 2019, 04:53:39 PM
Quote from: X99 on March 29, 2019, 03:41:46 PM
Why the bypass in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy would have been useless
Which one? They discuss no fewer than two.
The one that gets his house destroyed, not the one that blows up Earth. The location of his house would determine the feasibility of a bypass there.
why are there only like 5 people on this forum from south dakota

Verlanka

Quote from: 1 on March 29, 2019, 08:09:56 PM
African Americans four times more likely to be caught by red light camera

That actually could be a topic on here.

cjk374

Quote from: Verlanka on March 30, 2019, 08:50:51 AM
Quote from: 1 on March 29, 2019, 08:09:56 PM
African Americans four times more likely to be caught by red light camera

That actually could be a topic on here.

Let us pray for "never".

Quote from: 1 on March 29, 2019, 08:09:56 PM

I-20/59 overlap becomes major reason why new Meridian-Augusta Interstate vote passes
(I-20 rerouted on the new road, and existing I-20 becomes I-59 alone and I-22)


I am surprised that this idea hasn't been explored by the DOTs in real life.
Runnin' roads and polishin' rails.



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